Leonardo Blair
Leonardo Blair is an award-winning investigative reporter and feature writer whose career spanned secular media in the Caribbean and New York City prior to joining The Christian Post in 2013. His early work with CP focusing on crime and Christian society quickly attracted international attention when he exposed a campaign by Creflo Dollar Ministries in 2015 to raise money from supporters to purchase a $65 million luxury jet. He continues to report extensively on church crimes, spiritual abuse, mental health, the black church and major events impacting Christian culture.
He is a 2007 alumnus of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he was an inaugural member of the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism. He lives with his wife and two sons in New York City.
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Black churches suffered more but adapted better during pandemic: study
Compared to white and multiracial churches, majority-black congregations suffered more from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic but appear to have adapted better to the challenges presented by the virus, a new study shows.
Florida pastor who lashed misbehaving students at church school will not be charged
Terence Gray, the senior pastor of Saint Mark AME Orlando, who was accused of child abuse after administering corporal punishment to 16 misbehaving students at a school run by his church last November, will not be charged with a crime, Florida's Ninth Judicial Circuit State Attorney Andrew Bain's office announced Wednesday.
Tearful Joel Osteen announces Lakewood Church paid off $100M Bank of America loan
Thanks to their faithful giving, an emotional Joel Osteen announced to members of his megachurch in Houston, Texas, that they have finally paid off a $100 million loan from Bank of America they had been servicing for some 20 years.
TD Jakes: ‘We like our heroes dead’
Megachurch pastor and businessman T.D. Jakes lamented that “we like our heroes dead” during a recent revival service in Maryland, where he spoke about the death of Moses and the transition of power to Joshua.
Beloved twin sisters perish in fire at church where both served as pastors
Parishioners and family members are now mourning identical twin sisters and pastors, Kimberly and Stephanie Hjelt, who led the Word & Spirit Church in Portland, Oregon, after they both perished in a three-alarm fire that destroyed their parsonage on Sunday. The sisters were 76.
Police continue search for 6 missing people tied to online cult leader who bashed Jesus
Police in Berkeley, Missouri, who have been searching for four adults and two children who went missing after they were served eviction papers for a rental home in St. Louis last August said they had ties to Rashad Jamal, an imprisoned self-styled spiritual guru, prophet and rapper with thousands of followers online.
IHOPKC says some reports of misconduct likely 'were not handled properly’
Though reports of misconduct at the International House of Prayer Kansas City have been relatively low, a preliminary review of the ministry's 25-year history shows that at least a few likely "were not handled properly," the ministry's new spokesperson Eric Volz said Sunday.
Deacon calls for Immanuel Baptist Pastor Steven Smith to resign as church investigation continues
A month after Pastor Steven Smith informed his congregation that he would be willing to step down for failing to inform them that a former church leader had been credibly accused of abusing minors before his tenure began, a member of the deacon board at Immanuel Baptist Church in Little Rock has reportedly called for the pastor's resignation.
Couple claims new LA Christian nightclub is vision from God
The husband-and-wife founders of a new Christian nightclub launched last month in Los Angeles, California, claim God gave them a vision to create a space where Christians can fellowship and have a “high time” in the Lord.
Church offers prayers after officer takes his life in parking lot
Members of Redeemer Church in Manvel, Texas, will offer up special prayers Thursday for the family of Pasadena Police Department Officer Kerry Heiserman, who took his life in the church parking lot Monday shortly after learning that he was under investigation for invasive visual recording.